Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
JIMMY PAGELive Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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